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A former Catholic priest who sexually abused two teenage boys at a seminary has died in hospital whilst serving his prison sentence, a new report has revealed. Michael Higginbottom abused his victims in the 1970s and 80s at a seminary that is now closed.

Higginbottom, who taught at the seminary, was convicted after a retrial . A court heard he 'carried out a series of violent sexual assaults' and used a strap or a belt to hit the boys. He was jailed for 18 years in July 2019 after he was found guilty of 12 offences of buggery and indecent assault.

The depraved criminal 'carried out a series of violent sexual assaults' on boys who boarded at St Joseph's College, a Catholic seminary in Upholland, near Wigan, Greater Manchester, the Manchester Evening News reports .

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